Paid Notice: Deaths
FAGAN, ROBERT A.

Published: August 14, 2009

FAGAN--Robert A.,writer, poet, and independent scholar in literature and art history, died July 25, 2009, in New York City at age 74. He is survived by his wife Lenore Parker of New York City, stepson Donald Parker, his wife Amy, and step-grandchildren Jim and Rachel Parker of Brookline, Massachusetts; sisters Joan Rohn of Hampton Bays, New York, and Constance Dealy of Portsmith, Rhode Island; and brothers Larry Fagan of Portsmith, Rhode Island, and Peter Fagan of Newport, Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in English Literature. He has published fiction, poetry and critical essays in numerous literary journals. A volume of poetry, "Stepping Out," and two volumes of short fiction -- "Lost Cities Found Objects" and "Peaceable Kingdoms and Other Fictions" -- have been published by Red Moon Press. A fourth volume, a collection of critical essays, poetry and fiction, is forthcoming. His intelligence was encyclopedic, and his interests covered all eras and mediums of human art-making from paleolithic cave paintings to the latest poetry magazines. Conversation with him was an unending delight, a voyage of discovery with a continual frisson of ideas and insights. The world will be a duller place without Robert to observe, comment, and make deeper sense of it for us.